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Comment by Kerrianne

Given the time I'm posting this, there's no one on live realms yet that has gotten up to killing this guy for the Threat From Above quest after you become a Champion.

I decided to take a poke at him, to see what I'll be up against once I hit Champion.

I'm telling you right now, the "Suggested Players " isn't a joke. He hits like a truck and the Cultist Bombardier adds do ranged firebomb damage, making this a problematic solo fight at best, and extremely short and messy at worst.

No strats as of yet for him, I've got 2 more days until my guild and I are doing the Champion's dailies. Once we're beating the snot out of him, I'll post back.

Comment by lokin

I just took a shot at him too on my DK. Got him to about 10% when more bombers showed up. Pop'd all my CD's, blew pots during the fight but to no avail. Maybe if I managed things a tad better, used flasks and stat food, maybe a buff or two, I might be able to get him down.

Comment by HellShade

Easily soloed as a prot paladin

Basic strategy. Just tank, Bubble and heal up, then tank some more. Died in about 2 mins.

Comment by OrangeSummer

He's definitely soloable as a DK. Get aggro, pop AoD, blow all CDs while it's up, health pot and focus fire on the dragon. You might die but he'll die before you and is still lootable. Just make sure you don't rez near the body, it's likely the bomber NPCs are still there inside his corpse and will take you out in your weakened state.

Comment by Chalise

Just solo'd as a holy pally - strategy as follows: ignore adds - kite in a circle to avoid bombs - flash of light - attack dragon - flash of light - attack dragon - rinse repeat til it's dead. then same thing w/ the 3 adds that you'll have by the time he's dead - adds are elite too.

Comment by greshzak

Just solo'd as an enh shaman. pull, drop totems, call wolves, lust, focus the wyrm, kill the adds after. home for dinner.

Comment by ben0214

Solo'd as Prot pally in 10/25man gear (31k unbuffed)

Used seal of corruption and judgement of light.

Keep sacred sheild up and move when they throw the ticking bombs on the ground.

Survived with 12k hp, fairly simple.

Wouldn't suggest clothies or casters try to solo it as you will have 4 mobs attacking you.

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Comment by Grinton

Won't be able to take him until tomorrow, but what about soloing him as a hunter? Can he be taken down easily with a good tanking pet?

Comment by sternside

He's fairly easily soloable as a BM hunter with a tanking pet. Just make sure you keep mend pet up and kill the bombadiers when they spawn, as their bombs can burst your pet down pretty quickly. Pretty standard fight.

Comment by Lilyi

Solo'd as a naxx25 geared disc priest with the penance glyph, pretty easy fight. Just fear the adds each time a new one comes out, keep SW:P/DP on the dragon, holy fire->mind blast-> smite when you can. Use shadowfiend on the dragon at about 50% mana and spam shadowcrawl for extra damage. Don't stand in bombs on the ground, they blow up for ~5k.

Use shield, self-penance, and renew to heal. Use pain suppression when all 3 adds are out and your fear is down. Clean up the bombardiers after the dragon dies.

I didn't require any of these to solo the mob, but they could make up for a lack of gear or other disadvantages.

Comment by CaffeineRage

Some info on fighting him...

This is from the view of an Enhancement Shaman, but some can be taken away from this for everyone.

I found using my Fire Elemental totem was the way to go for dealing the Bombardiers. Due to it being immune to fire damage. It would take the AoE damage the Bombardiers gave, but the aoe effect wouldn't go off due to immunity. I would also suggest running any fire resist/immunity abilities for other classes.

Max hit for about a 6k crit, but that was only after I lost my Shamanistic Rage at the very end of the fight. I would suggest saving Maelstrom Charges for Healing Waves after random big crits, or using a shield.

It also has a breath attack, but I do not see that on my log. I think I was able to avoid it with Spirit Walk. Running away, then going back in. I'll edit this post when I have info on that.

Comment by Icesong

Fellow Protection Paladins: you're good to solo this. Just keep moving around when the adds start dropping off. Finished with 40% and didn't use any CDs.

Comment by Roangut

I managed to solo this guy as a Resto shaman in mostly 25 naxx gear (and a bit of maly, but i digress) he didn't hit very hard and my Earth shield was able to mitigate most of his hits. with talents and glyphs it heals up to 5k+ so i just sat down and used Lightning bolt on him until he died, using the fire ele as my major CD

be sure to tag the mobs, i had to pull him a second time because the fire ele killed them before i got a hit in, so i didn't get credit for it. =/

Comment by Khoro

Soloable as a demon/destro lock with Felguard. Use Meta & heal your pet when needed. :)

Comment by Npcsa

Popped Gangbang Zombies, engaged, nuked him hard. A bomb exploded in my so I used death pact on one of my zombies. Use every cooldown you have to nuke/survive/heal and it's piece of cake for us DKs.Blood DK w/ mostly Naxx25 gear, some ilvl200 blue.

Comment by GodofCorrosion

He almost killed me by LAGGING ME TO DEATH.

Seriously, if you have an average or sub par machine, turn your particle density down on this guy

edit: opps wasn't really a reply but whatever :P

Comment by menemew

Would be so much easier without adds, anyway i just get my relyable healer :P

Comment by CaspianRoach

Quite a challenge to solo as Affliction Warlock with raid gear. Did it from 2nd try.

Use your voidwalker. Health Funnel when neccesary.

The strat is to keep the Corruption on boss and spawns always. At some phases (75%, 50%, 25% of her health, i presume) one of cultist bombardiers will jump out from her and will chase you. Don't forget to keep him corrupted and CoA'ed. Keep moving when your void dont need heals. If you don't move in time, you will die from the Cultist's Timed Bomb that they plant from time to time at the ground. (6-7k damage, ouch.)

I found that healing from 2-3 targets affected by your Corruption is enough to keep you alive even while channeling Health Funnel.

Fel Synergy talent makes wonders in this fight, tho i did it without it.

Comment by Kciroj

Note that you can fear the cultists. Best to DoT em up and kill them before the next one jumps off.

Comment by Geforce20

Soloed as feral druid in bear form, easy just keep moving from bombs.

Comment by MischievousLoki

...just keep moving from bombs.

This is probably the best advice for this fight, doesn't matter if you're trying to solo it or in a group.

Chillmaw himself hits pretty dang hard (I think I was getting crit for 5k in 47% armor) and does a breath attack.Chillmaw is immune to Turn Evil (he's undead, so of course other fears and horrors are out of the question as well).

Overall the movement is the most important part in reducing damage taken. The bombardiers throw bombs on the ground under your feet, so even when you get away from them, you have to keep moving.

The Bombardiers are totally CCable (I was able to stun and disorient them).

Comment by Fejja

Easily soloed with my warlock and my voidwalker out, have him tank the boss and take care of the adds, when its time for the boss your voidwalker has more than enough threat for you too dps Chillmaw down.

For the record my specc is 0/40/31 the burst damage helped me alot.

Comment by Athene

The 3 players requirement IS what I would call a joke.I soloed him with no problems at all! No consumables, no pots, no vrykul bones buff, I didnt even need Lay on Hands.The whole fight took me about 1 min 22 sec.And no, I didn't care for moving away from bombs, I just aoe'd all the mobs together.

Comment by Darkomicron

Anyway, when I engaged Chillmaw this afternoon, I somehow bugged it, Because it didn't hit me... It just stood still, and I was able to kill it without any damage of Chillmaw herself.

I stood on the foot of a small mountain, She was like a sitting duck wyrm.Edit: When I tried it again when she respawned, she hit me once then twice... then stopped again...I guess i can solo this quest like this ;)

Edit 2: removed some (now) useless lines.

Comment by Kapowder

Chillmaw has a predictable oval path. Towards the North end, he's low enough to be engaged by melee. I put my Felguard on stay in his path, slightly South of where he skims the surface, and I positioned just North within range of health funnel.

The fight was slow: I used Curse of Weakness, Corruption and Immolate. I alternated between Health Funnel and Drain Life, strafing from side to side 20 yards or so. When the bombers came down at 75, 50 and 25 percent, I feared them and applied dots. By doing slow, consistent dps, I was able to kill each add before the next dropped down.

The first time, I went all out on Chillmaw and wiped. By using slower dps and taking on adds one-by-one, I was able to finish the fight easily.

Comment by lonerider

He is not that hard for a retri Paladin... I even soloed him in pvp gear and after that I noticed that he is lvl82 so I missed quite a few attacks.

Just have Seal of Light up and Judgement of Light. Keep Sacred Shield on you and heal with Art of War procs if you need it. Don't forget to keep moving around to avoid the bombs.

After he is dead, finish the bombardiers. They can be CCd if that will help someone.

Comment by Wasabii

One odd note is when I tried to HM it or Aimed shot/MD it I got an error

"Cannot be cast on beastmaster or invis god targets"

same with one of the warriors DT.

heh

Comment by Klingo

Soloable as an SV-Hunter, just keep moving and max dps. If you aggro give your pet some time to reggen (deterrence), then FD und kill him. :>

Comment by Klingo

Soloable as an SV-Hunter, just keep moving and max dps (let your pet pull with active mend pet on it, in addition use your MD). If you aggro give your pet some time to reggen (deterrence), then FD und kill him. :>

just keep mend pet up!

of course 2p T5 is a great help :D

Comment by Grimgroth

Soloable by boomkin druids, just try geting the him down before the bombers comes and throw bombs at you, I was able to get him to 50% then I just ran, Moonfire/IS and hoped my trees would kill him before he killed me.

After he was dead it was only to run and dot the adds.Using starfall helped alot by almost killing two of the adds while it was up.

Comment by EskimoNorth

Very easy solo for an enh shaman. Drop your SoE+WF totem, pull him, drop searing, pop wolves, BL shamanisti rage even to minimize damage. And he's dead 20 seconds later and you can kill the adds while most of your CDs are up.

Comment by sirmarkus

bugged for me. grapic: look at the tail when he is strying down

Comment by sogrom

it's a joke for a bear. wait for 2 bombardies and hit berserk.

Comment by Ribbons

Just soloed this guy as a bear druid. Starts off sort of slow. He doesn't hit you that much so you don't generate much rage. Once a bombardier drops down and start whacking on you, you generate more. I waited until then to pop trinket cooldowns and Barkskin. Be sure you move around, because the adds will drop bombs on the ground that explode after a certain amount of time, and if you're too close to them, they do a good 4K chunk of damage. I saved Survival Instincts and Frenzied Regen as long as I could.

Comment by Jagno

This also happened on my rogue when I tried to use Throw to pull him.

Comment by warrigt

Soloable as a decently geared resto shaman.Start off with fire elemental totem and go from there.

Comment by Usada

Seems like the above poster hasn't updated much, so I will offer my input for those that are having trouble or doubts whether they can solo this or not.

Duo'ed as a prot warrior and frost mage. Chillmaw himself doesn't hit very hard. He flies a good 20 yards above the ground, so you will need to range pull him or body pull him on your flying mount. When Chillmaw starts getting low on health three level 80 "elite" Cultist Bombardiers will be summoned one shortly after another. However, they're not actually elites in that they don't hit anywhere near elite damage.

Chillmaw

Melee hits for 1500 after mitigation against a tank (can be fully blocked).

Frost breath for 3000+.

Cultist Bombardiers have three attacks and have just a little more health than your average level 80 mob:

400 melee damage (after mitigation).

1100 fire damage from their "Throw Dynamite" spell. Cast regularly.

Drops ticking "Time Bombs" at irregular intervals that will detonate for 4000-5000 damage after a short period. Can be avoided by simply moving away from the stationary bomb.

As a warrior wearing 90% heroic and 10% naxx gear with around 45% avoidance, he melee hits for 1500 (can be fully blocked), and does a frost breath for 3000+. With fair dps there will be no problems downing Chillmaw. I would not be surprised if most classes that know what they're doing can solo this with some cooldowns used.

Comment by Usada

Seems like the above poster hasn't updated much, so I will offer my input for those that are having trouble or doubts whether they can solo this or not.

Duo'ed as a prot warrior and frost mage. Chillmaw himself doesn't hit very hard. He flies a good 20 yards above the ground, so you will need to range pull him or body pull him on your flying mount. When Chillmaw starts getting low on health three level 80 "elite" Cultist Bombardiers will be summoned one shortly after another. However, they're not actually elites in that they don't hit anywhere near elite damage.

Chillmaw

Melee hits for 1500 after mitigation against a tank (can be fully blocked).

Frost breath for 3000+.

Cultist Bombardiers have three attacks and have just a little more health than your average level 80 mob:

400 melee damage (after mitigation).

1100 fire damage from their "Throw Dynamite" spell. Cast regularly.

Drops ticking "Time Bombs" at irregular intervals that will detonate for 4000-5000 damage after a short period. Can be avoided by simply moving away from the stationary bomb.

Comment by Greldin

First I simply dpsed Chillmaw and kept myself up, I didn't know that the adds would spawn after a time but I kinda noticed that the tactic of choice was to run away from boms, pop concentration, holy wrath and exorcism whenever it's up. I had to bubble once because I got really much damage for missing the bombs once.

It's not easy, but certainly soloable. The paladin class has always been a solo-class anyway.

Comment by Frisky

easy solo as feral druid, just avoid bombes and focus adds.

Comment by Fallie

Kept Thunderclap and Demo shout up on Chillmaw, and switched to the Bombardier's as they spawned.

Remember to do a Commanding shout + Last stand + Enraged regeneration when you get low on hp, and pop Shield wall any time you get a bombardier. And don't forget that the Bombardier's are fully stunnable and interruptable; I reduced a lot of damage by shield bashing and stunning them.

Comment by Poink

As a geared feral this is retardedly easy. Just put your bear gear on and Maul your way to victory. With full 25 man gear Imp LotP and Savage Defense was basically negating all the damage I took.

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Comment by Cracked

Not that easily soloable as a rogue, but definitely doable. Used full pve gear with combat talents, opened with killing spree and evasion. Ended combat with 800 hp left.

Comment by whocarez

fairly easy solo as PvP ret pally, backpedal, CC adds when able

used JoL, Seal of Wisdom, Kings. use SS and FoL procs, ended up only having to holy light twice, didn't bubble or wings (probably be easier with either)

Comment by frodo34x

If you're having difficulty soloing Chillmaw, it may be worth trying to kite him to the Shadow Vault. As a Holy Pally the kiting method is incredibly easy, with raid level gear you should easily be able to keep yourself topped up just using Holy Shock + Sacred Shield.

Comment by Fallie

This is incorrect. The extra HP's you regenerate through higher temporary hit points are not lost when Last Stand or Command Shout fades. Try for yourself if you don't believe me.

Comment by Volante

Soloed as a BM hunter, but it wasn't exactly graceful. Spec (as well as pet's talent tree) is specialized to buff the pet as much as possible for tanking as well, sacrificing DPS.

Barely got Chill dead before crab pet finally succumbed to dynamite, had to feign off the bombadiers. Interesting tidbit, the bombadiers will reset to Chill's corpse and kick back. They do not despawn. (At least, they didn't despawn in the 5 or so min it took me to get myself ready for fighting again.)

Going to keep working at this; I know I can make it cleaner, but I doubt I will be able to pull this off without doing the fight in two parts.

Comment by NymphetamineOD

Cake as a frost DK tank, used AoTD to start and had him at 10 percent by the time ghouls had died in tank gear. Next time I'll just put dps gear on, let the ghouls tank, and zerg it without a second thought. I didn't even notice the bombers untill after he was dead.

Comment by keslol

46.09, 31.44 on that coords chillmaw can´t hit you only with his breath

Comment by karouno

chillmaw is actually easy enough to solo as enhancement shaman...not even need of gear!...downrate me after you test it!

Comment by jpsantos

Soloed as a Protection Paladin with heroic level gear, wasn't easy though, I'd recommend using Fire Resistance Aura and ignoring the adds while moving away from the bombs on the ground until Chillmaw is dead. Chillmaw himself doesn't hit that hard, in fact I can fully block his attacks, but the constant fire damage from the adds as well as his frost breathe drain my health slowly.

Comment by Juneko

If no one is around I can usually solo him as an ulduar geared survival hunter. For the set up I use my 2 piece tier 5, and a turtle as a tank. With mend pet and the set bonus I can keep him up for the whole fight on Chillmaw. I kill each bomber as they land, they like to stop and throw time bombs at you which makes kiting them very easy. Once the third one lands I finish off Chillmaw though, as he is in kill shot range.

One thing to note is that Chillmaw is in an instances portion of icecrown. if you run too far west while kiting the bombers you can actually de-zone and Chillmaw will disappear. This can be useful if you are about to die, or problematic if you are about to kill him. Be careful where you run to.

Comment by ultras03

Very easy to solo as an enhancement shaman.... maelstrom + wolves = insane selfheal :) I just moved backwards so I avoided some bombs, popped a BL, 3.5k dps .. piece of cake :)

Comment by pandaman

I use a Tenacity pet, drop a Freezing Trap, Misdirect onto pet, keeping up Mend Pet in the process of DPSing it down, first mob will be lured towards you from the healing and trapped, then I set a second trap for next add, and Readiness for the third - by this time though Chillmaw is usually dead and the first add has broke free, but it's very easy from then on, just avoid the bombs on the ground.

Comment by glycereth

resto shaman can pretty much /afk solo this.

earthshield fire ele, flame shock/lava burst/LB burn chillmaw dead, the adds dont even hurt you when you kite them with earthbind/frostshock.

Comment by Athene

It's called healing, heard of it?

Comment by Giulls

I've found that as long as you don't move, or move backwards a very small amount after ranged pulling he will never get to melee range with you, leaving you to deal only with his breath and adds.

If you're any class with healing this makes the quest extremely easy to solo, as long as you heal through the time bombs which you will not be dodging.

Comment by DeathsDisciple

Curious if a Mage could solo this i havnt tried to yet on my mage. My enh shaman was cake to solo this guy.

Comment by Zeldendorf

Soloed as 80 aff warlock and 80 Unholy DK Warlock strat- Have Voidwalker tank Chillmaw, use corruption and ONLY corruption on him, keep voidwalker health funneled to keep him alive, when cultists come down, dot them up, fear spam and drain life while keeping voidwalker alive and keeping corruption on chillmaw, avoid the bombs, when cultist dies, rinse and repeat

DK strat, Spam Death Strike on Chillmaw, Pestilence diseases onto the cultists when they come down then spam deathstrike on them till they die , repeat

Comment by Nightwolfess

Soloed by a 80 blood dk. with 4k health left.Just use army of the dead your normal ghoul and dancing rune weapon.. Just remember to move around when the cultist come out

Comment by Lihiro

This is difficult to solo as a BM hunter with a tenacity pet, even wearing PvP gear to boost the pet's HP.

I'd advise at least 2 manning it, as me and a blood death knight did this with ease. Twice in a row without heals, even.

Comment by danczwgunz

Solo as an 80 Affliction Warlock practically every day.

Tips:-Have a port set up for when dealing with adds after Chillmaw-Have Demon Armor up for a double in armor, thus blocking twice as much physical damage**Also, you'll be receiving more healing from all your spells, increased bu 26% if spec'd into Demonic Aegis, tier 3 of Demonology-Have your Voidwalker out, only use his bubble if your under 50% health-As each mob comes down, place a Corruption on them, and have your Voidwalker attack them**This will be giving you a second source of healing yourself-Use Howl of Terror if needed when they're are too many mobs around you-Use a regular Affliction sequence on Chillmaw: Haunt, UA, Corr, CoA; CoW won't be of much help since Chillmaw should go down pretty fast, he's only the scale of about 8-10 mobs*REMINDER: Death Coil, besides the Voidwalker Sacrafice bubble (which only takess roughly 2k health of your Voidwalker), will be 1 of your 2 main sources of survival from near death in this fight

If played right, and some more practice, it's possible to never go below 100% health w/ all the healing spells up. Though the trickiest part would be keeping full focus of healing spells on Chillmaw, while still making sure the adds aren't on you and that they are all have Corruption up on them. G'luck.

Comment by mitchness

fury warrior in beserker stance. glyph of enraged regen and bloodthirst, pop a potion, 5 sunders. demo shout + fear the adds, battlestance > retaliate > zerker > recklessness whirlwind = insta death to adds as they come back, keep stance dancing/thunderclapping. basically, debuff the &*!@ outta him and you got it made. walk backwards the whole time. don't stop walking. the bombs will kill you. i used battle shout just fyi and had a warlock cookie from the raid prior (i need to stop forgetting i pick those up).

Comment by starlinej

Very easy to solo on my prot paladin - don't listen to the bads saying it is difficult.

Comment by Brak710101

I think chillmaw was just moved in a hotfix, can someone confirm or deny? A blue said it.

Comment by KungenEnsidia

So I think blizzard made a mistake with a recent hotfix, Chillmaw does NOT seem to be respawning, at least on Magtheridon, anyone else confirm/deny?

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Comment by Kinemaniac

Soloed as full epic Enhancement Shaman, popped all cd's, went down pretty fast.

Comment by StaticLgtBrngr

This guy and his cronies can be soloed by my enhancement shaman with mostly ilevel 200 gear by kiting him around in circles and using the fire elemental to pick up the bombers once they appear, he is immune to fire damage and their melee hits are weak so he makes an awesome tank for them.

(Make sure to use your fire resistance totem however as they throw dynamite at you which hurts)

The strategy I use is to use lightning bolt to pull chillmaw northwards to an extrude in the terrain then drop my fire elemental and wait for his blast nova to attract the bombers, once he has them I move chillmaw away, then summon and taunt him with my spirit wolves and use heroism / bloodlust (plus my gift of the naaru being a draenei and my lifeblood spell being a herbalist, which may give me something of an advantage here) and shamanistic rage.

(Pulling him northwards between the large and small terrain extrusions tends to keep your attempt out of sight of other players who may try to help but end up screwing up your pull, and also from gaining aggro from chillmaw again due to a respawn while you are still handling the bombers.)

Chillmaw himself drops very fast at this point, keep flame shock up and use maelstrom stacks for free heals where possible as a couple of crits and or decent hits can eat your health in seconds, remember to keep moving him around in circles because of the bombers and use spirit walk to run out of frost breath as often as possible.

Once chillmaw is down you can go for the bombers one at a time who should still be attacking the fire elemental, wait for your shamanistic rage to come off cooldown or use a mana potion if needed, though even if you fail at this point there is time for you to return as a ghost and heal up before killing the remaining bombers as they do not despawn immediately.

Be careful of pulling chillmaw past the aforementioned terrain extrusion however, as his area appears to be phased like most of icecrown and it will cause the whole thing to reset.

Soloing this is all in the pull, practice the above until you get it right every time and this quest will become second nature.

Regards

-- Static of Lightbringer EU.

Comment by Keiser

Soloable as Ret. If you can stay alive against Chillmaw alone before any guys jump down you should be ok. SoL and AoW instant heal whenever you can. As soon as a bomber jumps down, focus on him and make sure you move out of every ticking bomb. After he's dead, return DPS to Chillmaw. Repeat 2 times, then finish off Chillmaw.

Much easier than the time I tried to burn down Chillmaw and save the adds for last!

Comment by Selstad84

I thought to give this one a try alone because it was 2.30 a.m and I was surprised how easy he was for me. I'm a protection build paladin now with around 90% avoidance, 560 defence and 29k buffed HP (Blessing of Sanctuary).

I thought first to use the frost resistance aura but found out it wasn't needed. I just stood there and barley took damage. Used Sacred shield and Flash of Light when needed. When the bombardiers came I just moved myself around so I never stood on any of the bombs he spawned and just focused on Chillmaw all the time. Consecration up all the time along with Holy shield.

He was at around 40% when I had to use my lay on hands mostly because I was out of mana. But I used that once, never had to use Divine Shield. Used Divine Protection though which I think might have helped some but other than that.

A simple fight for a protection build paladin, or at least that's what I think. Downed him solo on my first attempt.

Comment by Chaoscrusader666

Why was this downranked? It's probably because people are jealous of prot pallys :P

I am a prot pally myself, and this info greatly helped me.

Seal of Light + BoSanc + JoL for the first 50%, switching to Wisdom for the last part, I used fire resist aura, it helped a TON with the bombs. Keep Sac Shield and divine plea up, and maybe heal a bit if you need to. I didn't need to bubble, or heal outside SoL+JoL.

As was said earlier, watch for bombs -- kite him around a bit.

I am wearing gear that makes me uncrushable (102.4 Dodge/parry/block) and I had 29k hp with BoSanct, 1409 sbv.

Comment by Vyshiade

As a rogue with full Ulduar 25 hard mode gear and a few pieces of ToTGC 25 (ilvl 258) gear and ToTC 25 (ilvl 245) gear, this is easily soloable.

Comment by Jeflanaab

Was able to solo this quest as a prot warrior.33,6k hp unbuffed tho it wasn't all that easy.As soon as the adds start to spawn just keep running from them and try to stun them as much as possible.

First try i made i killed chillmaw then respawned and killed the adds easy after that.

Comment by Miyamiya

Solo'd as enhancement shaman, badge/htoc geared, no need to be a tank or kite. I didn't even use consumables/pots.

Just blow cooldowns and kill him before he kills you.

Comment by Monanagus

I was able to solo him as an enhancement shaman in mostly Naxx 10 gear and around that level. I was amazed I could but I dropped Magma Strength of Earth Windfury and Healing stream and went through my normal rotation Stormstrike, Earth Shock, and Lava Lash and when I had maelstrom at full used Healing Wave and I used Feral Spirit and had them take the bombadiers and once Magma was gone I used my Fire Elemental and took me about a minute to kill him had no mana left at the end though.

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Comment by Vaugn

I just solo'ed Chillmaw as a discipline priest. I used my pvp discpline spec and pve (Ulduar25-TOC25) gear. PVP gear keeps me alive much easier, but runs out of mana way too fast.

A few suggestions:- Save desperate prayer for real emergency. It'll get nuts toward the end.- Shield yourself every time it's up. - You'll need to redo inner fire at least twice during the fight.- Burn power infusion on the pull for some extra damage.- Fear the first bombadier when he lands, but then don't fear until you get the second to land. - Save pain suppression for when you've 2-3 bombadiers on you and your fear and shields are on cooldown.- Might be worth using the pvp gloves for the -2 second weakened soul effect. I didn't think to use mine.- Pull out shadowfiend after the first bombadier lands. Your mana will have dipped a bit, and you'll wanna get a lot of dps on the boss to get the second to land.- Penance yourself whenever you can. Free shields = good thing.- Basic Campfire. +4 spirit = win! ; )- If things get a little ugly, try an inner focus / divine hymn combo. It's free, the +25% crit is awesome and the spell can proc a free shield on yourself. Don't use this when your health is too low though, as you'll like take some bomb damage and perhaps the dragon will breathe on you. It'll add up, but if you're at 50% and wanna burn 10 seconds for cooldowns to refresh, this can be useful.- It'll be tempting to burn down the dragon when he hits 15,000 health or so. Don't give into it. Keep yourself high on health, keep fearing the adds, and let your DOTs do the trick with the occasional mind blast or smite.- Once the dragon is down, fear the adds, hymn of hope for some mana, and clean up the rest.

It's a tough battle, and a worthy challenge for a discipline priest. Those that like challenging fights will relish the encounter.

Comment by palapacco

Soloed as lvl 80 rogue, toc25 equip.

Just spam all CD and vanish when bombers appears

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Comment by link428

Easy solo as an arcane mage (average gear level 245). Simply pull with AB after putting up a mana shield, mirror image, then blow all cooldowns and spam AB. When chillmaw dies, sheep one of the 3 adds, pop up fire ward, and just kite them to death. A health potion helps.

Just hope a rogue doesn't sneak up behind you while your doing this. D:

Comment by airsoftmatt101

ok just soloed as a blood dk only using rune tap twice just to keep my health bar full and used death strike the rest of the time to heal. just kill bombers as they spawn then go back to chillmaw and avoid the time bombs by moving out of melee range (5-10 second fuse). gear wise i have 26khp in frost pres have 19% dodge and 17.5% parry rate with 430 defense average item level of 201.

Comment by Drunkenvalley

Should be soloable by every player who can self-heal and who doesn't get instant-WTF-shot left and right. I first did it with ~23k HP, 536 def, 32% avoidance (dodge+parry), etc.

Just stick to spamming self-heal and staying out of the timed bombs. I found it to be rather comfortable picking off the bombardiers as they dropped off however. That way, you won't be annoyed by bombs all the time AND you won't re-aggro Chillmaw because you took too long killing the bombardiers afterwards.

Comment by Xandyx

Might have to throw up a bubble once, but it's really not to much of a sweat. 80 Heroics tanking gear.

Hmm, odd. I think you might be doing it wrong. I play a Protection pally (recently switched from Ret and only up to ~500 defense, and I can solo this with no problem. I use this build.My strategy is as follows:

Throw an Avenger's Shield to start the battle. I typically use Seal of Wisdom throughout the fight, switching to Seal of Light if I need health (despite using Judgment of Light, I still take enough damage.)

Focus on the Bombardiers when they spawn, kiting them out of range of the bombs.

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Profit. And by profit, I mean never having to find a group again. Now, I just need to learn to solo Citadel...

Comment by Chaoscrusader666

"Uncrushable" aka 'unhittable'... whatever you wanna call it these days. Mobs over four levels still have a chance to land a crushing blow.

Unhitable (2 t's?) doesn't spell check very well, and saying 102.4% avoidance makes you sound kinda geeky, and can be called a lie, since block =\= avoidance.

So I like 'uncrushable' :)

Comment by Nysam

Easy soloed as Protection Paladin - 37k HPWithout healing myslef, but you need always move, because of bombs.Simply have buffed Divine Plea and Judgement of the Light on your target and you will not have problem.

Comment by EskimoBob

Soloed easily as a deul wield frost dps dk. aggro hit till hes down to about 76% then pop armysummon ghoul and death pact to heal if you need too. and also after chillmaw is down kite the bombers around. stay out of the blast zones if possible

Comment by Ihmemies

Can be soloed as a blood DK too with decent gear. Pull, use cooldowns & kill.

Comment by EmperorBubba

random fun fact :

Not sure if this was was always the way. but while flying past chillmaw today, I noticed the 3 bombardiers, are actually riding on Chilly.

One on his backOne between the horns on his headand One hanging off the side of his face.

nice touch, and cool looking :P

Comment by archmiffo

Actually, I did just the same. Solo, no pots, no LoH, just Sacred Shield on myself, flash of light spam, make sure you have Consecration up all the time, and then in between throw a judgement and holy shock. Takes a bit of time, but its quite easy. The trick is to NOT fight chillmaw when the bombadiers comes along, take them out one by one. One bomb isnt that bad, and is easily healable.

I have managed to take chillmaw out once first and then taken the bombers, but it did require luck that all bombs didnt go off at once, as I would be oneshotted (well, technically threeshotted), so not recommended to anyone without tank health and healing capabilities.

Comment by ohrty

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Comment by mastes

this quest is extremely easy, easily soloable as a plate wearer although i struggled to solo it as an arcane mage with 5235 gearscore

Comment by larocque3

death griparmy of the deaddeath and decayplague strikeobliteratethen normal rotations...once bombers appeared i used pestilence in with my rotations along with blood boils tooalso threw up icebound Fortitude.

my gear is a mix of a few 226 on up to 245.my weapons are rimfang's claw (232) and empowered death bringer ...both halso have rune of the fallen crusader

when i was all done, my health was at about 55%

good luck

Comment by StaticLgtBrngr

A shamans' fire elemental makes a good tank for the daily where you have to kill this npc and you only have ranged with you as his blast wave like spell is good for hoovering up those adds that spawn and drop ticking bombs

I haven't checked but I'm guessing they do fire damage since they hardly seem to damage that big fluffy flame pillow.

Comment by jdryden

solo'ed as a frost dk. was pretty tough, as my gear isn't too great. died twice, then i went back and used my ghoul and army of the dead and just dps'ed like crazy. didnt even get agro till chillmaw was almost dead.

Comment by Dragontail

Soloed as dk(80). Once you get the hang of it, pretty easy.Kept kiting to avoid those bombs the adds throw and when those adds appeared I killed them first before I went to Chillmaw again.

Fist, activate Metamorphosis, and Demonic Empowerment. Send your pet in, then DoT up (No Curse of Doom, as, when done properly, he won't last that long.)You might also want to pop any trinkets you have, at this moment.Nuke Chillmaw as hard as you can (Immololate - Incinerate, you know the drill.)As soon as the first Bombardier pops up, activate Immolation Aura, Keep up your DoTs, and use Shadow Cleave as often as possible. you'd want to switch to using Seed of Corruption by now, to DPS down the Bombardiers, along with Shadowflame (preferably glyphed, so you can outrun them, just by dodging the bombs)Don't forget to watch your health. Use Death Coil, your Healthstone, or a potion when necessary.

I must add that I've only managed to do this when properly geared (ICC 10/25 / T10 gear).

Comment by Lurelina

I, as a decently geared spriest, once accidentally pulled this guy. I panicked, and also couldn't believe I hadn't died and I had kited him all the way up to Shadow Vault. I thought it would end there, because he could wipe Vile in about 3 hits, but SOMEHOW I managed to get him all the way in Shadow Vault before I died. Shortly after he died, but of course I didn't get credit.I tried again but he reset (this was right after the first time, by the way)

Comment by Quyx

A neat trick for rogues, to ease and perhaps allow the soloing of Chillmaw, is to use Vanish after killing Chillmaw. This allows you to drop combat, eat up, and begin working on the three adds that spawn with a fuller HP bar. Might seem a bit obvious, but I thought I would mention it for those whom might not have thought of it.

Comment by StaticLgtBrngr

There was a time when pulling this guy through the phase as the shadow vault caused him and the bombers to vanish, this is no longer the case and he can now be kited there.

I don't know when this was changed but I pulled him and a bone sentinel there yesterday and just left them there.

Him and the bombers managed to take out vile, the flight master several guards and a couple of vendors before the guards managed to finish them all off.

Comment by Zaratha

Didn't see any Frost Mage comments so I'll chime in that this was pretty easy to solo for me as a mostly 251 geared one. I started off by popping Mirror Images and pulling, had Ice Barrier and Mage Ward active and between DF/Brain Freeze FoF procs Chillmaw never even hit me before he went down.

I didn't need to invis after downing Chillmaw or sheep any cultists. It was pretty much tank and spank, just avoid the bombs on the ground, water elemental and images took the smacking for me.

Comment by Clousy

I've solo'd this as a Fire Mage (average ilevel of 259) - keep Mana Shield on yourself; and keep Living Bomb and Critical Mass up on Chilly (Hot Streak on proc, obviously) - popped Mirrors and trinks early on - LB the cultists as they spawn - pewpew Chilly until dead, Blastwave the cultists to slow 'em down, Nova them if they happen to get close - run around to avoid the bombs, etc.

Comment by drakyn27

i have no idea why people are having trouble with this quest and npc.

i just soloed him in regular justice gear, a few pieces at that... and wasnt even close to dying.

i have 30k hp and have no raid gear whatsoever.

i used a turtle to tank, shot him in on chillmaw and stood and waited for the bombers to appear, killed them as they spawned one by one. I got hit by a few bombs because u will not see them til they show themselves after a few bombs go off. I got hit a couple times by all 3 as they spawned and had no problem whastoever...by the time i killed the 3rd bomber chillmaw was close to death and I simply shot a few arcanes and kill shot him.

i have nothing spectacular on my bm hunter whatsoever, and most of you are saying you have much better gear and cannot solo this? seriously dont see how you guys are having problems if i can finish this with half to 3 quarters of life left after getting hit by their bombs just as you....and all of you have much much better gear. its all bout mechanics and knowing how to play your class.I have a 3rd of hp compared to most of you just over 30k.id be rolling another class...or somethin.